Paring and slicing knife



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Patented Aug. 9, 1927.

warren STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BATTAINI, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

PARING AND SLICING KNIFE.

Application filed March 31, 1926. Serial No. 98,635.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a knife embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an edge View thereof showing the blade flexed to facilitate removal of the guide means, and showing the guide sleeve, which is used for paring purposes, partly removed from the carrying member, with a part broken away, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the knife opposed to that shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a knife blade having the cutting edge 2 and provided at the inner end portion of such edge, or adjacent to the handle 3 with a guide means 4 for'use in paring to gauge the thickness of the peeling cut. This guide means comprises a roller 5 on which is rotatably and removably fitted a sleeve 6. The ends of the roller 5 are provided with axially projected trunnions 7, which journal in apertured ears 8 struck up in spaced relation from the cutting edge portion of the blade 1. These ears project in parallel relation laterally from the blade and overhang'or preferably project beyond the cutting edge portion of the blade a sufficient extent to place the bearing apertures for the trunnion 7 in a plane which is at right angles to and coincides with the cutting edge of the blade. This enables the roller 5 or guide sleeve 6, as the case may be, to project substantially half-way, transversely th eof, beyond the edge of the blade.

When the sleeve 6 is mounted on the roller 5, a quite narrow space, suitable for paring purposes, is provided between the roller and the edge of the blade, and when the sleeve is removed and the roller 5 alone used the space between the roller and blade edge is increased an amount equal to the thickness of the wall of the sleeve and enables the knife to be used for cutting a thick peeling or for slicing purposes.

It is apparent that the trunnions of the roller 5 may be easily and quickly engaged with or disengaged from the bearing ears 8 by a lateral flexing of the blade, as shown in Fig. 2. This flexing is facilitated by narrowing the blade at a point intermediate the two ears 8, as shown at 9. This narrowing, in the present instance, is utilized to form a top pulling hook or finger 10.

I wish it understood that my invention is not limited to any specific construction, ar-

rangement or form of the parts, as it is ca pable of numerous modifications and changes without departing from the spirit of the claims.

Having thus describedmy invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A paring knife having a plurality of rollers, one enclosed within another, adjacent to its cutting edge, said rollers being freely rotatable relative to the associated knife and being separable to determine the extent of permissible cut by the knife.

2. A paring knife having a pair of hearing ears adjacent to its cutting edge spaced .j-:

lengthwise thereof, a guide roller freely journalled at its ends in said ears in parallel relation to the blade edge, and a sleeve removably mounted on the roller, the axes of the roller and sleeve being spaced laterally from the blade edge at substantially a right angle thereto.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification.

JOSEPH BATTAINI. 

